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The Chronicle (Chronicon)

Jerome (continuing Eusebius) · compiled c. AD 380 at Constantinople

Patrologia Latina, vol. 27 (Migne) — manuscript witness to The Chronicle (Chronicon)
Patrologia Latina, vol. 27 (Migne) — 1846diverse authors · Public domain · Commons
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Patrologia Latina, vol. 27 (Migne) — manuscript witness to The Chronicle (Chronicon)

Patrologia Latina, vol. 27 (Migne) — 1846diverse authors · Public domain · Commons

What this text is

Jerome's Latin recasting of Eusebius's world chronicle, extended to his own day — the terse year-entries that carry the earliest datable notices of figures like Quirinus of Siscia and Maximin of Trier.

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Public-domain translations

Working translation (from the Latin)

[a. 308] Quirinus, bishop of Siscia, is gloriously slain for Christ: a millstone bound to his neck, he was cast headlong from a bridge into the river. · [a. 343] Maximin, bishop of Trier, is held in the highest renown — he by whom Athanasius was honorably received.

Manuscript witnesses

Oxford, Bodleian, MS Auct. T. II. 26 and the 5th-c. tradition

5th c.

The Chronicle survives in copies remarkably close to Jerome's lifetime — among the oldest Latin book-traditions extant.

EARLIEST WITNESSES

Patrologia Latina, vol. 27 (Migne)

1846

Standard pre-critical text.

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Provenance

Translation and continuation of Eusebius's chronological tables to AD 378

Editions & scholarship

Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.

Figures named in this text (44)

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